Fullstack Engineer · Raleigh, NC

Nina Tan

Building things that help people.

I make distributed systems, thoughtful interfaces, and the occasional Filipino Mahjong game. Currently at Bandwidth working on 911 call routing infrastructure.

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About me

Engineer by craft,
builder by nature

I'm a fullstack engineer with 3+ years at Bandwidth working across Java Spring Boot backend services and React frontends. I love the full picture — from API design to the pixels a user actually sees.

My background is a little unusual: I studied Graphic Design and Public Policy at UNC Chapel Hill before falling in love with software. That mix shapes how I think about products — with both technical rigor and real care for the person on the other side of the screen.

Outside work, I mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters, UNC Girls Who Code, and Pearl Hacks — because the best thing I can do with a seat at the table is help pull more chairs up.

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UNC Chapel Hill

Honors B.A. Graphic Design · B.S. Public Policy · Minor CS · Class of 2019

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AWS Certified

Cloud Practitioner certified. Comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

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Hackathon Winner

1st place, Bandwidth 2024 — Number Reputation Management Checker. Culture Catalyst Award, 2026.

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Beyond the keyboard

Knitter, dog mom to Brie, and someone who will always recommend a good matcha spot.

Experience

Where I've
done the work

June 2022 – Present · Raleigh, NC

Software Developer — Fullstack

Bandwidth

Built and maintained large-scale distributed 911 call routing systems processing thousands of concurrent requests with Java Spring Boot microservices.
Designed and extended REST APIs powering internal operational tools used across engineering and support teams.
Drove architectural shift from batch processing to event-driven pub/sub message queue after diagnosing a critical billing data-loss incident.
Performed database schema migrations with Flyway across production Postgres and MySQL environments as part of CI/CD pipelines.
Led React + TypeScript frontends serving 10,000+ users; led microfrontend migration using Webpack module federation.
Participated in on-call rotations and authored reusable component libraries with Storybook documentation.

Projects

Things I've
built with love

Filipino Mahjong

A full-stack web application for playing and learning Filipino Mahjong — real-time game state management, 3D interactive frontend, and persistent storage. Built end-to-end solo.

Java Spring Boot React Three.js SQLite

Number Reputation Checker

🏆 1st place, Bandwidth Hackathon 2025. A full-stack voice API application aggregating phone number reputation data with gamification features and real-time scoring.

React Node.js REST APIs TypeScript

This Portfolio ✦

You're looking at it. Built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and Three.js — floating glowing flowers, custom cursor, and scroll animations.

Three.js CSS Animation

Skills

Tools of
the craft

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Backend

Java Spring Boot REST APIs JPA/Hibernate MySQL PostgreSQL Event-driven arch. Go (learning)

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Frontend

React TypeScript JavaScript Three.js Cypress Jest Webpack Storybook

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Cloud & Infra

AWS (certified) Docker Ansible Jenkins GitHub Actions CI/CD Flyway Kubernetes

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& beyond

Distributed Systems Microservices Code Reviews Mentorship Graphic Design Technical Writing